Beijing’s industrial structure is service-oriented with a high degree of economic openness, and GDP has maintained rapid growth. This paper analyzes the international financial crisis and the impact of China’s anti-crisis policies on Beijing’s economic development as well as its transmission mechanism. Impact Index (excluding seasonal factors) and ARMA Model are employed in the empirical...

Manufacturing cycle time (the time that elapses from work order release to completion) affects the cost of developing and manufacturing a product. However, most cost models consider only the setup and processing times and ignore the move times and queue times, which form most of the manufacturing cycle time. This paper discusses the economic impact of manufacturing cycle time. It presents metho...

Availability: Public (only once status above is "Accepted") The question whether marginal cost pricing should be applied in the transportation sector has attained a great deal of attention during the last few years. It is argued that marginal cost pricing, or marginal social cost pricing – a term used when one wishes to emphasise that the pricing is applied by a government / regulator – would s...

This paper estimates the impact of economic conditions in foreign industries on the filing of antidumping petitions by US industries and the US government’s decision in preliminary and final antidumping investigations. Exploiting cross-country variation in economic shocks in manufacturing, I estimate a joint model of filing decisions by the US industry and antidumping decisions by the US govern...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been the driving force to Chinese Taipei's economic development; especially in the 1970s and early 1980s, SMEs enjoyed a strong position in Chinese Taipei's production outputs, numbers of enterprises, numbers of employees and export value. During that period, the growth of the SME sector was mainly driven by the dynamic growth of enterprises in the manuf...

The gross-output multifactor productivity index for U.S. food manufacturing grew 0.19 percent per year between 1975 and 1997. This productivity growth is low when compared with an estimate of 1.25 percent per year for the whole manufacturing sector. Low investment in research and development (R&D) could be one reason. Although productivity has been relatively low, food manufacturing output has ...

Subtractive manufacturing (CNC machining) has high quality of geometric and material properties but is slow, costly and infeasible in some cases; additive manufacturing (RP) is just the opposite. Total automation and hence speed is achieved in RP by compromising on quality. Hybrid Layered Manufacturing (HLM) developed at IIT Bombay combines the best features of both these approaches. It uses ar...

The objective of this research is to develop a turbine blade investment casting cost advisor model to assist a blade designer in decision-making in a concurrent engineering environment. It is a microcomputer based cost estimating system that employs a manufacturing knowledge base. The concept of the manufacturing process for blade production by the investment casting method is used to develop t...

Cities now occupy a central role in economic regeneration. Literature on such regeneration has focused on the supply side, neo-liberal leanings of projects, the centrality of cultural production and consumption, and the undemocratic, exclusionary geographies being produced through such regeneration schemes. This paper explores how urban regeneration strategies, premised on promoting cultural pr...

In the 21st century, China is being confronted with not only various urgent challenges (including industrialization, urbanization, modernization, and informatization), but also various pressures (including energy/resource shortages and environmental pollution). In this context, it is imperative for China to carry out new-type industrialization characterized by high technological content, high e...